At the end of last week my Macbook Pro refused to startup past the grey loading screen. It’s a lovely little screen (beats anything MS has ever done!) but when it stays like that for 20 mins you know there’s a problem.

It was time for a reformat.
Firstly choosing ‘archive and install’ where all the previous files and settings are placed in a folder and not deleted while the new OS install is created in place of the old; everything is new, nothing is lost. Installation completed with a single gigabyte or so remaining.

I then backed up all the necessary stuff and did a full format and reinstall.

The install went well. I napped for most of the 1 1/2 hours or so that it took, and again loved the intro video – I never skip it.

Coupled with the extra 2GB RAM I gave my Mac just the day before it was nice to have it running fast again – unlike the last couple of months with constantly under 10gb free space and an Aperture library over 80GB in size.

Everything was great, I thought, until I plugged in my Time Machine Back-up drive. It did show in Disk Utility, so it was being read, however it wouldn’t display in Finder. Thankfully I remembered that Davy had recommended Diskwarrior in relation to my original problem. I let it do it’s thing. After a few minutes it had found everything. Joy!

So where were we?

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